I've been steeped in a hard-left society my entire life. I didn't even notice it until I began working with a hard-right society — the United States of America. The best way to describe what it's like living in a hard-left society is through an analogy with social media. In short, my country is Facebook manifest.
In the Balkans, reputation is everything and it can be lost at any moment. One is expected to constantly abide by unsaid rules of conduct that evolve over time, just like on Facebook or Instagram. These rules continually erode the person's autonomy and freedom of speech, representing a constant pressure to self-censor and self-evaluate.
Best summed up as "think before you speak or you'll suffer", these rules are created by unseen and unknown controllers of the society, who work behind the scenes to stifle all creativity and ingenuity. Nobody knows anything about the process of how the rules are created but one thing is constant in it: the rules are never relaxed or removed, only tightened and expanded.
On social media, reputation exists as a vague concept of likes, shares, comments and so on. These small signals are completely unfounded in reality and bear no relevance to any event or behavior pattern. In the Balkans, people gossip like mad and it's exactly the same as on social media: you can have people praise or lambast you for no good reason.
In a socialist society, everything provided by the government is meant to be shared equally. The idea is to foster equality and prevent the formation of a centralized figure of power aka. king. However, almost everything that's shared is of such poor quality that it doesn't really matter that it's there. This applies to healthcare, information, wealth and so on.
In the Balkans, there's a king with a close circle of court advisors who pander to his ego. The enforced rules of social conduct and general sharing apply to the rabble but not the king and his minions, who get the first pick of anything and then let the plebs fight over the crumbs. This constant in-fighting is another interesting aspect of socialist societies, since it prevents the creation of a unified opposition that would take down the king.
Where I live, sexuality is perverted and deviant. I remember being 10-11 years old and grannies asking me if I jerk off, how often I have sex and whether I'm growing pubes. This wasn't an isolated instance and the degenerate sexual behavior runs rampant, it's only that I got more aware of it. Men are typically the more deviant gender, resorting to faggotry and all sorts of idiotic sexual tendencies that ruin their chances of having a family.
On social media, deviant sexuality is also rampant and women lasso hundreds or thousands of horny, groveling men to boost their ego. Women share themselves and have no shame, exposing their most intimate parts for the entire world or at least the circle of groveling men. In simple terms, men are used, abused and squeezed dry by cold, materialistic women.
From now on, I'll be calling them socialist, not social media. I think it's proper to call things by their real name, both to expose the truth to ourselves and to others.